WHITE RIVER _Miguel
Miguel Rio Branco was born in 1946 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. He is a painter, photographer, filmmaker, and creator of multimedia installations. Currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Worked extensively in Europe and the Americas since the beginning of his career in 1964 with an exhibition in Bern, Switzerland 14 short films directed and photographed eight long. He also directed and photographed seven experimental films and videos 2 Rio Branco's photographs were published in several magazines such as Stern, National Geographic, Geo, Aperture, Photo Magazine, Europeo, Paseante. Dulce sudor Bitter, the first book of Rio Branco was published in 1985 by the Economic Culture Fund, Mexico. The second, Nakta with a poem by Louis Calaferte was published in 1996 by the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba. In 1998 he released two books: Miguel Rio Branco, with essay by David Levi Strauss, published by Aperture and Silent Book by Cosac Naify. Miguel Rio Branco has works in the collection of public and private collections in Europe and America, which includes the following institutions: Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, the Art Museum of Sao Paulo, Centre George Pompidou , Paris, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Museum of Photographic Arts of San Diego and the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
